It started with a great civilization that leaded to bad farming to starvation. Some people got out of the Copan Valley but didn't make it far and eventually people were in a dead civilization.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
The Collapse of the Maya
The Mayans were a strong put together civilization staring around 250 A.D. and ended 900 A.D. There are many different ways and theories that the civilization collapsed. My beliefs about this collapse are mostly because of the farming was harder to grow crops. This is called the fallow period. Many died from starvation from less and less crops being grown. Skulls have been found right outside of Copan Valley which probably means that people were dying from starvation because it is so hard to grow crops so some people flourished away from that area to grow more crops and get a healthier life style. Some couldn't go outside of the Copan Valley because eventually their houses got buried with all of the erosion debris. It was hard for the Mayans to move and problems got too tough to fix like farming and trying to go somewhere else for a better life style which is how the Mayans collapsed.
It started with a great civilization that leaded to bad farming to starvation. Some people got out of the Copan Valley but didn't make it far and eventually people were in a dead civilization.
It started with a great civilization that leaded to bad farming to starvation. Some people got out of the Copan Valley but didn't make it far and eventually people were in a dead civilization.
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That seems very likly. How do the skulls show that they died of starvation?
The fallow period is when the land is given a rest to regain it's minerals, though, not when they can't grow crops. Many of the skulls suffered from anemia - why? And wouldn't people move away the debris covering the houses? It seems to me like the debris covered the houses while people living in them just didn't go outside, because if they did, they would probably form a path through the debris or push it away.
Its a good idea and all of your facts are in order and make sense, but I dont really understand what your theory is?
You have a logical explanation, and I think your concluding sentence sums your paragraph up. However, when you said that they collapsed, wasn't it the collapse of the Classic Period, not of all the Maya people?
Mara,
You have a good theory. I also believe the collapse had something to do with farming.
That seems like a probalble idea
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